There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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