We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
ALAN HIRSCHLiminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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