Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
ALAN HIRSCHBut the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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