In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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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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