Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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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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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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