But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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 mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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