Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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