When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
ALAN HIRSCHReal leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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 missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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 kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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