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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
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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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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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
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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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