Alan Hirsch Quotes, Jesus Quotes, Adventure Quotes

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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church—reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.

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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

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

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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

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It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

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