In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHIt’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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