Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
ALAN HIRSCHThink of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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