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.
ALAN HIRSCHThis submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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