I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
ALAN HIRSCHWe have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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