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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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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