The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
ALAN HIRSCHIf a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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