At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
ALAN HIRSCHGo among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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