You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
ALAN HIRSCHMany 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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