I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent 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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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