The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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