The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
ALAN HIRSCHChristianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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