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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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Theologian
University Teacher
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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More data is not always the answer.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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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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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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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 the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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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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