It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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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 religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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