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God is speaking
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Starfish and spider
In terms of organizations, a spider and a starfish might look the same (at least each has eight legs), but their organization are worlds apart. A spider that loses a leg might well be able to function. It might even be able to operate minus three legs, although its survival would be endangered if it…
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Change
God as both the originator of change and the one who demands it from us. He points out that many of the most important words in the scriptures (repentance, justification, conversion, discipleship, new life, sanctification) involve movement and change. Alan HirschClick to TweetFrom the book “The Permanent Revolution” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*
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Missing
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Migration leads to innovation
In fact, research indicates that people who have lived in multiple cultures are more likely to be innovators, which accounts in part for the massive increase in innovation in the past few decades. Alan HirschClick to TweetFrom the book “The Permanent Revolution” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*
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NT craggy mountain
N. T. Wright uses the metaphor of Greek and Jewish ideas meeting like two tectonic plates throwing up the craggy mountain range we call New Testament theology. His thinking was the direct result of an interplay between of two world views and cultures. Alan HirschClick to TweetFrom the book “The Permanent Revolution” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available…
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We have become so numbed
We have become so numbed by the opiate of institutional religion that we have simply lost contact with the memory of what we can, and ought, to be. Alan HirschClick to TweetFrom the book “The Forgotten Ways Handbook: A Practical Guide for Developing Missional Churches” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*
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Mainly because the church (the
Mainly because the church (the ecclesia), when true to its calling, and on about what God is on about, is by far the most potent force for transformational change the world has seen. Alan HirschClick to TweetFrom the book “The Forgotten Ways Handbook: A Practical Guide for Developing Missional Churches” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*
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Disciple-making is an irreplaceable core
Disciple-making is an irreplaceable core task of the church and needs to be structured into every church’s basic formula. Hirsch, Alan; Altclass, Darryn (2009-04-01). Forgotten Ways Handbook, The: A Practical Guide for Developing Missional Churches (Kindle Locations 493-494). Baker Book Group. Kindle Edition. Alan HirschClick to TweetFrom the book “The Forgotten Ways Handbook: A Practical…