Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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