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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
People
Disciple
Sure
Culture
Found
Hard
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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 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 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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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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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