You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
ALAN HIRSCHPut simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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