The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
ALAN HIRSCHRenewal 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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 church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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