I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
ALAN HIRSCHBut the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would 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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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