We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
ALAN HIRSCHThose of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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