A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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 surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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 ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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 retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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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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