We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
ALAN HIRSCHIn missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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