At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
ALAN HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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 church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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