Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
ALAN HIRSCHThe embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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