And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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