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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
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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 safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
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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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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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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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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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