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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
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University Teacher
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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More data is not always the answer.
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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 missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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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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