When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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