But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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