The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCHMore data is not always the answer.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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