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.
ALAN HIRSCHWhen there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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