The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
ALAN HIRSCHTo obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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