The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
ALAN HIRSCHYou cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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