We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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