Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
ALAN HIRSCHAt some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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