And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
ALAN HIRSCHIn order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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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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