We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
ALAN HIRSCHGo among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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