Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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