At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
ALAN HIRSCHWe must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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