Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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