We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
ALAN HIRSCHCurrently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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