A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCHThe fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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