At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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 appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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