In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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