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.
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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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