Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
ALAN HIRSCHIf a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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