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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Grace
Truth
Narrow
Wide

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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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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
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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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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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