We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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