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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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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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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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