A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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 kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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