Alan Hirsch Quotes, Innovation Quotes, Retreat Quotes

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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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

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

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

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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’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

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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 quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

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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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