Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
ALAN HIRSCHWorship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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 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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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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