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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
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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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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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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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