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God Has Given Us Everything That We Need To Get The Job Done (opens the original)
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Every seed has the potential for a tree, and every tree has the potential of a forest. Folded within a small, hard seed is the whole story of a tree that will one day shade a field and seed a forest, and it keeps pressing toward that form through drought and frost for as long as life remains in it. Aristotle called this idea of latent capacity entelechy: the purpose a living thing carries within itself from the very beginning. I’ve become convinced this ancient idea opens a window onto the churc
"It's the System Stupid" (opens the original)
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We are living through one of those rare hinges of history when the inherited forms of the Western church are being tested to their foundations. I have spent much of my life asking why it is so extraordinarily difficult for the church to become the movement Jesus intended it to be, and increasingly I believe part of the answer lies in a place most leaders have never been trained to look: the system itself. Our churches are shaped by deep, largely invisible patterns of belief, structure, practice,
Simplify In Order To Multiply (opens the original)
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The Western church seems to be, to quote Bono, “stuck in a moment, and it can’t get out of it.” It remains caught within patterns, paradigms, and assumptions inherited from a previous ecclesial era, struggling to imagine and embody a future that corresponds to the changing realities of its mission. The model we inherited is a complex, resource-heavy institution that runs on professional clergy, large (expensive) buildings, sizeable budgets, and centralized programs. All of that machinery places
Think Like a Movement. Act Like a Movement (opens the original)
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For the past two years, I’ve had the remarkable privilege of working with some remarkable individuals to build something that has been in my heart for a long time: a new digital home for my work and a generative space for the work still taking shape.At alanhirsch.com, you’ll find a living platform where the ideas, practices, and resources of my lifelong exploration of apostolic Jesus movements can be gathered, developed, and shared as they grow.This is designed as a place where movement intellig
The Movement of Truth (opens the original)
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“Able to teach” — 2 Timothy 2:24Paul’s charge to Timothy carries an entire theology of communication inside it, and the verses that surround it extend that theology into a theology of movement. What Timothy heard from Paul in the presence of many witnesses, he is asked to entrust to faithful people who will teach others also (2 Tim. 2:2). Four generations appear inside a single sentence, each link in the chain receiving truth first through a life that could be watched, touched, and followed. The
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