The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCHUnless 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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