Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilt 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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