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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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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, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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