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More important, Christian community is not something about which we can arbitrarily make decisions — it is not an optional extra.

— Alan Hirsch The Faith of Leap (2011)

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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

The Faith of Leap (2011)

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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

The Faith of Leap (2011)

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

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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 offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

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Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

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