We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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