The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
ALAN HIRSCHTruth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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 order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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