Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
ALAN HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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