The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
ALAN HIRSCHIt’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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 cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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