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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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