Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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