The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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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.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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