And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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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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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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