If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
ALAN HIRSCHWhether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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 plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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