Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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