Alan Hirsch - People Quotes

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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, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

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

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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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We are the people of the ultimate Quest — we are on a wild, and sometimes dangerous, adventure to save the world.

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Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

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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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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

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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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