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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
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University Teacher
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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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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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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 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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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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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.
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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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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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