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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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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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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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