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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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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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