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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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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