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.
ALAN HIRSCHUnless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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