All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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