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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Found
Hard
Way
People
Disciple
Sure
Culture

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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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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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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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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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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.
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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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