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 HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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