You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
ALAN HIRSCHThis submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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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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