A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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