Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
ALAN HIRSCHWe are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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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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