You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHMore data is not always the answer.
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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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