A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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