Quote

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus it changes the game completely.

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
Changes
Completely
Threshold
Game
Submission
Games
Root
Jesus
Cross
Crosses
Following
Roots

More quotes by Alan Hirsch

Image
Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
Alan Hirsch
Image
You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
Alan Hirsch
Image
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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 preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
Alan Hirsch
Image
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
Alan Hirsch
Image
It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
Alan Hirsch
Image
At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
Alan Hirsch
Image
If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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
Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
Alan Hirsch
Image
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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
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
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
Alan Hirsch