You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
ALAN HIRSCHA capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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