If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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