A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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