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.
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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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