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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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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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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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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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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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More data is not always the answer.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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