If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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