You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
ALAN HIRSCHCurrently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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