It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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