Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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