We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
ALAN HIRSCHOur point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
-
-
In short, we find the faith of leap.
ALAN HIRSCH -
The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCH -
To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
ALAN HIRSCH -
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCH -
You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
ALAN HIRSCH -
All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
ALAN HIRSCH -
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
ALAN HIRSCH -
We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
ALAN HIRSCH -
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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 -
Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCH -
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCH -
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
ALAN HIRSCH -
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
ALAN HIRSCH -
You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
ALAN HIRSCH -
In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
ALAN HIRSCH