Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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 must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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