And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
ALAN HIRSCHMore data is not always the answer.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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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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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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