The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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 short, we find the faith of leap.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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