And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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 fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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