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.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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