Alan Hirsch Quotes, Sports Quotes, Lying Quotes

Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

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

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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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

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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

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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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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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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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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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 a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

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

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