If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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