Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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