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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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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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