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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: 64
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
People
Disciple
Sure
Culture
Found
Hard
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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