Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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