A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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 surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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 short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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