Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHThe ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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