The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
ALAN HIRSCHWorship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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