The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCHIf a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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