If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
ALAN HIRSCHChristianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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