Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Plenary Session 3 -- Alan Hirsch


Alan Hirsch wrote The Forgotten Ways. His talk in the main session was challenging and very entertaining. The highlights:


  • Organizations exert a certain pressure on us to conform. Sometimes to wake up out of the mesmerizing effect we have to get kicked in the butt.

  • It is Christology that lies at the heart of the renewal of the church.

  • If we don't go back to Jesus, what are we doing? We get so busy with the stuff of the church that we can forget all about Jesus.

  • You know that Jesus is like you when He hates the people that you hate.

  • The embodiment of the faith is critical to transmission.

  • We disciple in the context of consumerism, which is the overwhelming alternative religion of the day. It is the state religion.

  • What we need are missionally responsive, culturally adaptive, organizationally agile, multiplication movements.

  • Every believer a church planter, every church a church planting church.

  • God sent and went to make a difference. We must be a sending people.

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