More data is not always the answer.
ALAN HIRSCHMore data is not always the answer.
ALAN HIRSCHWhen the church is in mission, it is the true church.
ALAN HIRSCHIf a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
ALAN HIRSCHBecause 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.
ALAN HIRSCHAll their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
ALAN HIRSCHHeroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
ALAN HIRSCHGo among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
ALAN HIRSCHLiminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHReconnecting 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.
ALAN HIRSCHUnless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
ALAN HIRSCHMost churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
ALAN HIRSCHNowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
ALAN HIRSCHThis submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilding community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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