You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHTruth is narrow, but grace is wide.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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More data is not always the answer.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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