Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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More data is not always the answer.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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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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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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