Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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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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