To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
ALAN HIRSCHYou cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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