We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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 not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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