You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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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