Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
ALAN HIRSCHJudgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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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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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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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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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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More data is not always the answer.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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