A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
ALAN HIRSCHWhen the church is in mission, it is the true church.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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