Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
ALAN HIRSCHWorship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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