Alan Hirsch Quotes

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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

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This is why we are on record claiming that the missional conversation — refactoring mission back into the equation of church — contains the seeds of authenticity and renewal for Christianity in our time and place.

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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

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What we find in our heroes and martyrs is a living witness to the fact that the true life of faith can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if one takes it on bravely and gallantly, as something of a grand adventure in which we set out into an unknown country to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.

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