Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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More data is not always the answer.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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