Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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