Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
ALAN HIRSCHIn order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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