Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCHMission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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