Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
ALAN HIRSCHThe ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
-
-
And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
ALAN HIRSCH -
To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
ALAN HIRSCH -
It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
ALAN HIRSCH -
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
ALAN HIRSCH -
You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
ALAN HIRSCH -
There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
ALAN HIRSCH -
I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
ALAN HIRSCH -
It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
ALAN HIRSCH -
In short, we find the faith of leap.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
ALAN HIRSCH -
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.
ALAN HIRSCH -
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
ALAN HIRSCH -
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCH -
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
ALAN HIRSCH -
The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCH -
There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
ALAN HIRSCH -
You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
ALAN HIRSCH -
The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
ALAN HIRSCH -
If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
ALAN HIRSCH