Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
ALAN HIRSCHThe embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
-
-
The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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 -
Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
ALAN HIRSCH -
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
ALAN HIRSCH -
At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
ALAN HIRSCH -
We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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 -
We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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