The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Most 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.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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