If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
ALAN HIRSCHThis submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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