I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
ALAN HIRSCHNowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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