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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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 if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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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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