Alan Hirsch - Jesus Quotes

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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

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The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

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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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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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