There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
ALAN HIRSCHInterestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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 plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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