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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
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South Africa
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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