A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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