Alan Hirsch
- The church is in decline in every Western setting.
4 Areas We Need to Recover
1. The Centrality of Jesus
- Christology lies at the heart of the renewal of the church.
- Jesus sets the template for what it means to be a Christian.
- Jesus' harshest criticism is for the religious people.
- It's easy to take Jesus out of the church because it's hard to live with a Lord.
- Christianity minus Christ equals religion.
2. Discipleship
- Becoming like Jesus.
- Embodiment is critical to transmission.
- Movements only grow in proportion to their ability to make disciples.
- Consumerism is killing us from within. It is an alternative religion and we've wedded ourselves to it.
3. Ethos/Structure of Apostolic Movements
- missionally responsive
- culturally adaptive
- organizationally agile
- mobilize the whole people of God
- every believer a church planter
- reproducible
- structurally networked
4. Missional-Incarnational Impulse
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