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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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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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