When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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