Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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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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