Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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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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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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