Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
ALAN HIRSCHThe safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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More data is not always the answer.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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