A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHReal leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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 can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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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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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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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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More data is not always the answer.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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