Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
ALAN HIRSCHThe quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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 we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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