Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHAll their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
-
-
Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
ALAN HIRSCH -
But 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 HIRSCH -
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
ALAN HIRSCH -
A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
ALAN HIRSCH -
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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 -
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
ALAN HIRSCH -
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCH -
More data is not always the answer.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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 -
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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