A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHWhen the church is in mission, it is the true church.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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