It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
ALAN HIRSCHMore data is not always the answer.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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