The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
ALAN HIRSCHWhen the church is in mission, it is the true church.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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