Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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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, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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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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