Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
ALAN HIRSCHReconnecting 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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