A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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