But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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