But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
ALAN HIRSCHI found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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More data is not always the answer.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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