Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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