If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
ALAN HIRSCHWho knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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