It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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