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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
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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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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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