There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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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