To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
ALAN HIRSCHLiminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
-
-
The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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 missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
ALAN HIRSCH -
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.
ALAN HIRSCH -
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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 -
Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
ALAN HIRSCH -
When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
ALAN HIRSCH -
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
ALAN HIRSCH