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Alan Hirsch ist ein südafrikanischer Theologe, Autor, Gemeindegründer, Pastor und Missionswissenschaftler. Er wird zu den führenden Personen der weltweiten Bewegung der Emerging Church gezählt. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Oktober 1959
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“Becoming an adventurous, liminal church means getting over risk aversion. Often the difference between a successful person (or organization) and a failure lies not in having better abilities or ideas, but in having the courage to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.”

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Alan Hirsch

Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 48

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

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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 206.

“Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.”

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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 110

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

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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 31

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

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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 85

“But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.”

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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 92

“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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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 151

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

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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 160

“Let’s stop kidding ourselves — there are too many instances of Christians worshiping sublimely every Sunday, but never making an impact beyond the congregation, never experiencing the powerful beauty of communitas, and never going deeper in discipleship.”

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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 177

“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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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 174

“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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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 52

“There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.”

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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 88

“Because of this global uncertainty, the visionary and the adventurous amongst us will get to shape the future of the twenty-first century—the church included.”

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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 30

“If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.”

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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 136

“In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.”

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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 96

“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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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 80

“Indeed, we believe that twenty-first century Christians are yearning to see the adventure put back into Christianity, into the relationship with the living God — where it rightly belongs.”

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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 28

“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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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 79

“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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Quelle: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 110

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