It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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