If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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 a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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More data is not always the answer.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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