Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
ALAN HIRSCHThe fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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 kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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