You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
ALAN HIRSCHJudgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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