Alan Hirsch Quotes, Adventure Quotes, Loss Quotes

If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

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

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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

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

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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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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.

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

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

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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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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

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

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

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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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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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