Quote

It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

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
Vital
Heroes
Scripture
Hero
Journey
Started
Part
Scriptures
Ongoing

More quotes by 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
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
Alan Hirsch
Image
There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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
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
I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
Alan Hirsch
Image
There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
Alan Hirsch
Image
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
Alan Hirsch
Image
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
Alan Hirsch
Image
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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
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
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
The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
Alan Hirsch