Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
ALAN HIRSCHLiminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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 of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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More data is not always the answer.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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