A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHJudgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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