Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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