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.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilt 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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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More data is not always the answer.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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