In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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 fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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