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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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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