A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
ALAN HIRSCHChristianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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