If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
ALAN HIRSCHThose of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHIt is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
ALAN HIRSCHThe quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
ALAN HIRSCHPut 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.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
ALAN HIRSCHThe kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
ALAN HIRSCHThink of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
ALAN HIRSCHOur preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHJudgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
ALAN HIRSCHThe fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
ALAN HIRSCHReal leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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