Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
ALAN HIRSCHThe church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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