It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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 mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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