Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilding community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
-
-
You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
ALAN HIRSCH -
But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
ALAN HIRSCH -
In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
ALAN HIRSCH -
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
ALAN HIRSCH -
It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
ALAN HIRSCH -
And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
ALAN HIRSCH -
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 -
Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
ALAN HIRSCH -
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCH -
When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
ALAN HIRSCH -
If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
ALAN HIRSCH