But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
ALAN HIRSCHWe must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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