If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the 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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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