You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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