Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
ALAN HIRSCHThe kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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 mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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