The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
ALAN HIRSCHUnless 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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