The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
ALAN HIRSCHMost churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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