It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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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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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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