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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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