Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
ALAN HIRSCHPut 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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