Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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We 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.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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