The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
ALAN HIRSCHThere is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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More data is not always the answer.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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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 kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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 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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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