We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
ALAN HIRSCHWe are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
ALAN HIRSCHBut because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
ALAN HIRSCHIt’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCHAll their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
ALAN HIRSCHNowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
ALAN HIRSCHIf a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
ALAN HIRSCHWhether 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.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilding community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHLiminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
ALAN HIRSCHThe mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCHThe safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
ALAN HIRSCHWhether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
ALAN HIRSCHThe surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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