There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
ALAN HIRSCHNowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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