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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.

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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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