In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHIt’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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