We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
ALAN HIRSCHIn missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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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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