But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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