Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCHAt some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic 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 of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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