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.
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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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 mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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