A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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