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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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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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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