Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
ALAN HIRSCHWho knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
ALAN HIRSCHIn short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHMore data is not always the answer.
ALAN HIRSCHBut herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
ALAN HIRSCHCurrently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
ALAN HIRSCHIt seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
ALAN HIRSCHOur preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHIn missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHA retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCHWe 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.
ALAN HIRSCHThe safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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