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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.
Alan Hirsch
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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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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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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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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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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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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