The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
ALAN HIRSCHWho knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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