Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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