A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCHYou cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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