A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCHTruth is narrow, but grace is wide.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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