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.
ALAN HIRSCHThe appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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 thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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