change is inevitable

I came across this quote in a blog post by Alan Hirsch:

"Mission, by its very nature, calls us into risky engagement: and because it does that, it requires constant vigilance, re-learning, adaptation, and unrelenting adjustments, in the life of the organization. Therefore, missional church (the church whose organizing principle is the mission of God in the world) by very definition must call into question many of the inherited ideas that underpin the prevailing forms and ideas of church. These are all too real dimensions of church life that if left unchallenged, will inevitably pull the church into a institutional vortex that will not only suppress her message, but in the process destroy the spiritual legitimacy of the church itself. Brunner was right, the church does exist by its mission—we are a message-tribe after all. So, if the church’s inbuilt missional impulse failed to challenge the status quo, progress itself would be impossible. Heck, the biblical teaching on the Kingdom of God is predicated on the idea that we have not yet reached the ideal yet. The best is yet to come, and that we must all lean into the task of participating in God’s dreams and desires for our world. There is much work to be done and much of that work involves change."