A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHInterestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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 fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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