The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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 are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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