Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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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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