At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
ALAN HIRSCHAt some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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