In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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