A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHThink of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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