The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
ALAN HIRSCHGo among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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 ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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