If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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