Quote

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

Alan Hirsch

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Point
Brought
Away
Failure
Take
Walk
Walks
Risk
Willing
Paths
Path
Risks
Chance
Familiar

More quotes by Alan Hirsch

Image
It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.
Alan Hirsch
Image
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
Alan Hirsch
Image
More data is not always the answer.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
Alan Hirsch
Image
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
Alan Hirsch
Image
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
Alan Hirsch
Image
The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
Alan Hirsch
Image
A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, 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
Image
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
Alan Hirsch
Image
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
Alan Hirsch
Image
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.
Alan Hirsch
Image
If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
Alan Hirsch
Image
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, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
Alan Hirsch
Image
You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
Alan Hirsch
Image
You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
Alan Hirsch
Image
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
Image
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
Alan Hirsch