It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
ALAN HIRSCHWe have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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 fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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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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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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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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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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