In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHIn short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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More data is not always the answer.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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