This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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 capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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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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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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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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