Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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 [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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