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 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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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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