Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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