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 HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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