The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCHThe embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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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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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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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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