Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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