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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: 64
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Ministry
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Cans

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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, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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