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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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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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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