A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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