We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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