It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCHThose of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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