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.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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