If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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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