We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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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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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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