Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
ALAN HIRSCHAt some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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