“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.”

—  Alan Hirsch

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

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