Quote

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

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
Better
Posts
Finds
Irrelevance
Reflection
Eventual
Serious
Christendom
Simply
Increasing
Face
Decline
Church
Post
Faces
Eras

More quotes by 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
More data is not always the answer.
Alan Hirsch
Image
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
Alan Hirsch
Image
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
Alan Hirsch
Image
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
Alan Hirsch
Image
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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
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
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
Image
Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
Alan Hirsch
Image
If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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