We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
ALAN HIRSCHGo among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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