The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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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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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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