If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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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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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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