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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: 64
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
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Johannesburg
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South Africa
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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 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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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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