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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.

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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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