It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
ALAN HIRSCHTruth is narrow, but grace is wide.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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