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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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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