Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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