Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
ALAN HIRSCHBecause 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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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