In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHIn order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHHeroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
ALAN HIRSCHIn a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
ALAN HIRSCHMission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
ALAN HIRSCHExpressions 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.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHA retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
ALAN HIRSCHIn missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHIt is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
ALAN HIRSCHThe fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
ALAN HIRSCHThose of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
ALAN HIRSCHAll their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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