Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
ALAN HIRSCHIn order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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