Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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