Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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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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