If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional 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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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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