When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
ALAN HIRSCHWho knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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 disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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