It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCHA retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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