You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
ALAN HIRSCHAt some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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.
ALAN HIRSCHThose of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
ALAN HIRSCHIn missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHTruth is narrow, but grace is wide.
ALAN HIRSCHThe ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCHThe embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
ALAN HIRSCHExpressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
ALAN HIRSCHMany 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 HIRSCHA retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCHChristianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
ALAN HIRSCHReal leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
ALAN HIRSCHThe kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
ALAN HIRSCHWhether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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