A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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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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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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