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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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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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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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