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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

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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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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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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 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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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