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.
ALAN HIRSCHThe appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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