Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
Alan HirschThe ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
Alan HirschWhether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spiritโs 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. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
Alan HirschThe missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
Alan Hirsch