If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
ALAN HIRSCHMission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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