A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHThe quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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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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More data is not always the answer.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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 safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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