Alan Hirsh: Missional Movements

Finally I'm able to post some of my notes from sessions of the Exponential Conference. Here's my notes on Alan Hirsh's talk on "Missional Movements." By the way, if you haven't read his book "The Forgotten Ways" - you crazy! Buy it and read it tomorrow! Here's what he said:

We need to:

1. Recover the Centrality of Jesus in His Own Movement

• We must radicalize in order to missionize
• Radix = root. To radicalize we must go back to our roots.
• If we don’t go back to our roots, what are we doing?!?
• Christology leads to our Missiology leads to our Ecclesiology
• “Jesus is a disturbing dude. Jesus and religion don’t go down well together.”
• The subversion of Christianity.
• We’ve taken Jesus out. Why? Because it’s hard to live with the Lord.
• We’ve domesticated Jesus
• We’ve re-made Him in our image.
• You know you’ve done it if He hates the people you hate.
• What if Jesus showed up in our churches? I mean the wild Jesus…
• We need to be disturbed by Jesus.

2. Recover Discipleship as Our Core Task

• Discipleship is becoming a little Jesus
• Our lives speak loudest
• Consumerism is killing us.

3. Recover the Ethos/Structure of Apostolic Movements

• Missionally responsive; Culturally adaptive; Organizationally agile; Multiplying
• Movements mobilize the whole people of God
• Every believer a church planter. Every church a church planting church.
• Structurally networked.
• Employ missional leadership. Ephesians 4: 5 fold leadership.

4. Recover an Incarnational Mission Impulse

• God is missional and incarnational
• We must go, and go deep

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