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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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 short, we find the faith of leap.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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 kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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More data is not always the answer.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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