To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
ALAN HIRSCHThe fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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