At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
ALAN HIRSCHInterestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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 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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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 church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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