The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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More data is not always the answer.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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