There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
ALAN HIRSCHChristianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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 can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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