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.
ALAN HIRSCHThe fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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