Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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