In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
ALAN HIRSCHIf a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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