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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
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University Teacher
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.
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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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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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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase missional church lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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