But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
ALAN HIRSCHIt is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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