If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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