It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCHBeing the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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