In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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