A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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