Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
ALAN HIRSCHBut the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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