Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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 thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie 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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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