There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
ALAN HIRSCHOur preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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