Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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 ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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