Quotes by Alan Hirsch

Alan Hirsch

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

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Missional Church

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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God

Life

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

Adventure

Christianity

Spirit

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

Christian

Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.

Christian

Leadership

People

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

Capacity

Ifs

Ministry

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

Community

Culture

People

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.

Adventure

Loss

Risk

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

Aversion

Loss

Risk

In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, 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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Impact

Irrelevance

Jesus

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Leadership

Life

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Lying

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Quotes by Alan Hirsch

Alan Hirsch

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

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.

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

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.

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

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