It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
ALAN HIRSCHTo obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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More data is not always the answer.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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