In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilt squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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