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

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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Community
Without
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Like
Cancer
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Sake
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Building

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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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