You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
ALAN HIRSCHThe missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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 fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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