A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHWe 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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