Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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