A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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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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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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