Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale 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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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