Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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