Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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