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

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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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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

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

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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

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

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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

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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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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

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

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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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