If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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