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.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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 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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Built 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.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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