It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCHThe mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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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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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 mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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