If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
ALAN HIRSCHWho knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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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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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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