Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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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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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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