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 HIRSCHBecause 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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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 embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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