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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus it changes the game completely.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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