If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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