It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
ALAN HIRSCHWe are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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