The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
ALAN HIRSCHIn short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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 capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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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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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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