If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
ALAN HIRSCHWe have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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