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.
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 seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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More data is not always the answer.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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