The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
ALAN HIRSCHMost churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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More data is not always the answer.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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