Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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 quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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