If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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