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.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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