A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHThose of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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