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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
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus it changes the game completely.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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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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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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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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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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