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.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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