The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
ALAN HIRSCHWho knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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