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ALAN HIRSCHIn short, we find the faith of leap.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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