If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilding community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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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 Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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