You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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