In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHIn a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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.
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