Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
ALAN HIRSCHThe mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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