When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
ALAN HIRSCHIn missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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