It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCHTo obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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