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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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 safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
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