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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.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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Missions
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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