In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHThis submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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