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.
ALAN HIRSCHWorship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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 surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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