Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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More data is not always the answer.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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