When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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