A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCHIn short, we find the faith of leap.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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