But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
ALAN HIRSCHMost churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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 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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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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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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