A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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