The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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