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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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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.
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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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Let's stop kidding ourselves — there are too many instances of Christians worshiping sublimely every Sunday, but never making an impact beyond the congregation, never experiencing the powerful beauty of communitas, and never going deeper in discipleship.
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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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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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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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Indeed, we believe that twenty-first century Christians are yearning to see the adventure put back into Christianity, into the relationship with the living God — where it rightly belongs.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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What we find in our heroes and martyrs is a living witness to the fact that the true life of faith can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if one takes it on bravely and gallantly, as something of a grand adventure in which we set out into an unknown country to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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 order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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 church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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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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Alan Hirsch
Born:
October 24, 1959
(age 64)
Bio:
Alan Hirsch is an Australian missiologist, author, and thought leader in the missional church movement.
Known for:
The Forgotten Ways (2006)
The Shaping of Things to Come (2001)
Untamed (Shapevine): Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship (2010)
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