Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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 preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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