A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHIn order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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