Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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 quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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