It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCHIt’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
ALAN HIRSCHIn missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHThe missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
ALAN HIRSCHTo obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
ALAN HIRSCHWe must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
ALAN HIRSCHThe quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
ALAN HIRSCHCurrently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
ALAN HIRSCHWho knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
ALAN HIRSCHWhen there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
ALAN HIRSCHIn a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
ALAN HIRSCHLiminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHThose 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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