In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHTo obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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