When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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 cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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More data is not always the answer.
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