The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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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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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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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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