In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHReal leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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