Quote

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

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
Leap
Innovation
Possibility
Short
Bring
Situation
Faith
Liminal
Find
Retreat

More quotes by Alan Hirsch

Image
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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
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
Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
Alan Hirsch
Image
This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus it changes the game completely.
Alan Hirsch
Image
The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
Alan Hirsch
Image
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
Alan Hirsch
Image
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
Alan Hirsch
Image
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
Alan Hirsch
Image
I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
Alan Hirsch
Image
You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
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