All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
ALAN HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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