Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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