Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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