Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
ALAN HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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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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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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