Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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