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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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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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