Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCHIn short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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