Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
ALAN HIRSCHTruth is narrow, but grace is wide.
ALAN HIRSCHIn order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHCurrently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
ALAN HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
ALAN HIRSCHYou cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHA capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHMore data is not always the answer.
ALAN HIRSCHIn short, we find the faith of leap.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
ALAN HIRSCHBut herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
ALAN HIRSCHWorship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
ALAN HIRSCHEvery Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHBut because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
ALAN HIRSCHChristianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
ALAN HIRSCHAll their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
ALAN HIRSCHIt seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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