When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
ALAN HIRSCHWe must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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