Quote

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

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
Adventure
Christianity
Spirit

More quotes by Alan Hirsch

Image
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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
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
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
Alan Hirsch
Image
We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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
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
There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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
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
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
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
Alan Hirsch