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.
ALAN HIRSCHIn short, we find the faith of leap.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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More data is not always the answer.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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