The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
ALAN HIRSCHWorship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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