Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
ALAN HIRSCHOur preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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 church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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