Church Quote by Alan Hirsch Download Open image “It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.” — Alan Hirsch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Goals God Inspirational Love Missions
It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission - God’s mission. — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share
Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. — David Bosch Copy Share Image
The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church. — James Emery White Copy Share Image
“Mission is not ours; mission is God's. Certainly, the mission of God is the prior reality out of which flows any mission that we… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Mission and missions must be the consuming passion of the whole church of God and not the exclusive domain of an elite missionary regiment.… — John Mark Terry Copy Share Image
“a missional church is simply any church that organizes itself around the mission of God in this world.” — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“So a working definition of missional church is a community of God's people that defines itself, and organizes its life around, its real purpose… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I have come to believe that the major threat to the viability of our faith is that of consumerism. This” — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“All apostolic ministry in some sense involves this return to the founding message as well as purpose. The missional task that follows is to… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image