Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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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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