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.
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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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