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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
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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More data is not always the answer.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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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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The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
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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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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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