Alan Hirsch Quotes, Journey Quotes, Destiny Quotes

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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

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

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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

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

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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

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

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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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More data is not always the answer.

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

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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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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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