In short, we find the faith of leap.
ALAN HIRSCHMission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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