Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
ALAN HIRSCHWe have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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 are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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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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