Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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