Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
ALAN HIRSCHYou cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true 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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