Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
ALAN HIRSCHThe missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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 fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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 kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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 appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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