Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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 church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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