In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHThere is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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