Quotes About Missional Church

#1. The missional church will take context seriously, but will also work on recovering the biblical narrative with its richness and potency for today's world. When story and context are equally embraced, we are beginning to think and act missionally.

Michael Frost

#2. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.

Gary Rohrmayer

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

Alan Hirsch

#4. The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix

Michael Frost

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

Alan Hirsch

#6. important to note that the missional church combines the concern for community development normally characterized by the liberal churches and the desire for personal and community transformation normally characterized by the evangelical movement.

Michael Frost

#7. a missional church is simply any church that organizes itself around the mission of God in this world.

Michael Frost

#8. Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

Alan Hirsch

#9. Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.

Gary Rohrmayer

#10. Missional leaders know that their church will only grow as large as its capacity to provide ongoing care through a network of small groups and ministry teams.

Gary Rohrmayer

#11. The problem is that we don't have a "missional" problem or a leadership problem in the Western church. We have a discipleship problem.

Mike Breen

#12. If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

Gary Rohrmayer

#13. God makes his gospel attractive through his people.

Gary Rohrmayer

#14. Remember all missional advancement always engages missional resistance.

Gary Rohrmayer

#15. The mission that Jesus invites us to participate in is primarily a relational one in nature. Our ability to sustain our relationship in a meaningful way will have a direct impact on our missional fruitfulness.

Gary Rohrmayer

#16. Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

Shane Claiborne

#17. If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

#18. The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

Alan Hirsch

#19. My father would eat cat shit if it was salted, fried, or frosted, but it took an act of Congress to get him to eat a vegetable.

Janet Evanovich

#20. In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

Alan Hirsch

#21. We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is the formation of people who see clearly the cost of discipleship and are willing to pay the price.

Stanley Hauerwas

#22. As the church get older and older it becomes harder to keep evangelism on the front burner because of all the competing issues that keeps pushing it back.

Gary Rohrmayer

#23. The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

Benjamin Disraeli

#24. Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who know nothing about your church or are disconnected from your people.

Gary Rohrmayer

#25. I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!

Jenna Elfman

#26. Stroll on. When the going gets tough, the postmodern analyst goes shopping.

Chris Jenks