Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Put 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.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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 are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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