You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHWe have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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 mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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