Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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