At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
ALAN HIRSCHTruth is narrow, but grace is wide.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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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 capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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