Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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