Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
ALAN HIRSCHWho knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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