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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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