The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCHThose of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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