Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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