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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase missional church lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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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.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus it changes the game completely.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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