And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
ALAN HIRSCHIf a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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