I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
ALAN HIRSCHGo among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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