If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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 mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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