Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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 church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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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