Quote

In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

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
Servants
Demands
Servant
Service
Demand
Position
World

More quotes by Alan Hirsch

Image
Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
Alan Hirsch
Image
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
Image
Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
Alan Hirsch
Image
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
Alan Hirsch
Image
In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
Alan Hirsch
Image
The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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
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
Image
Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.
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
You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
Alan Hirsch
Image
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
Alan Hirsch
Image
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
Alan Hirsch
Image
There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
Alan Hirsch
Image
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
Alan Hirsch
Image
If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
Alan Hirsch
Image
The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
Alan Hirsch
Image
In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
Alan Hirsch