But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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