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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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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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