And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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