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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.
Alan Hirsch
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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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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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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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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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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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 missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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