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.
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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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