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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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