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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
Alan Hirsch
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Alan Hirsch
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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