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.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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 missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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 are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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More data is not always the answer.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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