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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Churches
Gospel
Plant
Leadership
Church
Christian

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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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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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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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