We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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