Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
ALAN HIRSCHIn a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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We 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.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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