It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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.
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