But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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 because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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 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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