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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Disciples
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Religious

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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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