Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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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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