We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
ALAN HIRSCHPut 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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