But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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