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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Narrow
Wide
Grace
Truth

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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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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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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