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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Christian
Thing
Every
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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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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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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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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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