The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
ALAN HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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