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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Cans
Ministry
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More data is not always the answer.
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A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, 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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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