Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
ALAN HIRSCHWe must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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