But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
ALAN HIRSCHWhether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
-
-
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
ALAN HIRSCH -
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
ALAN HIRSCH -
In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCH -
We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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 -
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
ALAN HIRSCH -
The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
ALAN HIRSCH -
The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
ALAN HIRSCH -
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
ALAN HIRSCH -
If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
ALAN HIRSCH