Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
ALAN HIRSCHWe 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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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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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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