And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
ALAN HIRSCHI found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Most 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.
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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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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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