When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
ALAN HIRSCHWhen the church is in mission, it is the true church.
ALAN HIRSCHMost churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
ALAN HIRSCHBut the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
ALAN HIRSCHThe embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
ALAN HIRSCHThe missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
ALAN HIRSCHHeroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
ALAN HIRSCHLiminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHA capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHBut because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
ALAN HIRSCHThe fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
ALAN HIRSCHThere is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilding community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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