The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
ALAN HIRSCHIt seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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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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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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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