Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHCurrently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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