There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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 retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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