Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
ALAN HIRSCHMission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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