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.
ALAN HIRSCHIn order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true 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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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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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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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