Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
ALAN HIRSCHWhether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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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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