We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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