Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHThe quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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We 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.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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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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