Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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