Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
ALAN HIRSCHWe have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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