You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
ALAN HIRSCHMission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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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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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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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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