You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
ALAN HIRSCHReconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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