We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
ALAN HIRSCHReconnecting 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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 a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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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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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 a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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