Alan Hirsch Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Dying Quotes

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

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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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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

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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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More data is not always the answer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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