When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
ALAN HIRSCHBut the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for 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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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