A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
ALAN HIRSCHMany church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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 kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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 safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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