You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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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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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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