Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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