And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
ALAN HIRSCHIt is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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