If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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