We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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 fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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