When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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 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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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