A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHIn missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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 embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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