When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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