When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
ALAN HIRSCHInterestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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