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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
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Culture
Found
Hard
Way
People
Disciple

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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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