A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHThe kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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 embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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