The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCHJudgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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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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