In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHA retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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