You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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