Sentness Quotes

“Church people think about how to get people into the church; kingdom people think about how to get the church into the world. Church people worry that the world might change the church; kingdom people work to see the church change the world.”
― Kim Hammond, Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians

“When we have no impressive buildings and no swollen budgets to sustain our work, often only then do we realize that the best we have to offer this post-Christendom world is the quality of our relationships, the power of our trustworthiness, and the wonder of our generosity. MICHAEL FROST”
― Kim Hammond, Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians

“Jesus makes a safe place for us when we struggle with falling short of God’s expectations, when we become aware of our sin and our lack of desire to live God’s ways, when we struggle with lack of purpose and meaning, when other people or our own self-talk say to us, “You’re not worth it.”
― Kim Hammond, Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians

“When we look at the incarnational Jesus and hear the dangerous stories of those in his kingdom who model his incarnational mission, we are awakened to our sentness, and we step into a new missional life.”
― Kim Hammond, Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians

“God wants to send people into their own neighborhoods and networks, suburbs and sports clubs, families and friends. If we grasp that vision, we are indeed missionaries.”
― Kim Hammond, Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians

“People often like the idea of being sent, but their lives are already full. So they ask us how to create margin for mission. We think there are lots of things someone can do to create rhythms and practices for living a life on mission. However, there is a substantial difference between adding a little missional margin and living sent.”
― Kim Hammond, Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians

“Sentness is not just for missionaries to foreign lands. The shift is for all of us—students and workers, parents and kids, professionals and laborers, artists and accountants, moms and mechanics. We are all sent into our world.”
― Kim Hammond, Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians

“We get the sense that Future Travelers want to create a culture that gives permission for local mission experiments at all levels.”
― Kim Hammond, Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians

“we live in a world that is consumerist but also spiritually hungry, they seek to entice people to faith in Jesus through inviting them to foster a spiritual side of their lives.”
― Kim Hammond, Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians

“People who have lost their sentness expect their church to deliver on its promises to meet their needs, to care for them, to make them feel good. Pastors who have lost their sentness see their primary responsibilities as organizing services and meeting the needs of the people who are paying the bills. People who have lost their sentness gauge the success of their pastors according to metrics related to sales: more customers, more money and, ideally, a more fancy showroom. In other words, we measure church success by buildings, butts on seats and bucks in the offering.”
― Kim Hammond, Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians

“If we define religion as what gives people identity, belonging and purpose, then consumerism is the dominant religious alternative to Christianity in Western countries.”
― Kim Hammond, Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians

“We are convinced the biggest issue facing the church today is that we have bought deeply into consumer church. The greatest opportunity for the church is to shift from selling to sending by adopting the posture of sentness.”
― Kim Hammond, Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians

“Church people think about how to get people into the church; kingdom people think about how to get the church into the world. Church people worry that the world might change the church; kingdom people work to see the church change the world.3”
― Kim Hammond, Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians