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.
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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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 mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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