A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHIt seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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