Alan Hirsch Quotes, Innovation Quotes, Retreat Quotes

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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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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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.

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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

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

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

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

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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

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

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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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

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