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.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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