A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHGo among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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