We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
ALAN HIRSCHExpressions 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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