The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilding community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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 the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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