In short, we find the faith of leap.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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