And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
ALAN HIRSCHWe will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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