Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
ALAN HIRSCHGo among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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