Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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