Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
ALAN HIRSCHThe missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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