Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
ALAN HIRSCHAt some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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