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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.

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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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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