Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
ALAN HIRSCHThe ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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