A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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 capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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