Alan Hirsch Quotes, People Quotes, Community Quotes

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

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A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

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

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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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

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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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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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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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

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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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