Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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 kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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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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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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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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