It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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 quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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