Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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