Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
ALAN HIRSCHYou cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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