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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
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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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Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
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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 safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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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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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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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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
Alan Hirsch