The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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