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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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