It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
ALAN HIRSCHThe appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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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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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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