The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
ALAN HIRSCHA capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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More data is not always the answer.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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