The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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