Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHJudgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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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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