Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
ALAN HIRSCHIn a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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