Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
ALAN HIRSCHIn a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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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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