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.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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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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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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