Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
ALAN HIRSCHThe fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
-
-
In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCH -
If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
ALAN HIRSCH -
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
ALAN HIRSCH -
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
ALAN HIRSCH -
It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCH -
It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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 -
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCH -
The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
ALAN HIRSCH -
Many 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 HIRSCH -
A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCH






