Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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