Quote

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

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
Young
Fundamental
Soul
Fundamentals
Human
Adventure
Knitted
Humans
Risk
Exclusive
Face
Yearning
Faces
Fabric
Christian
Appetite
Seems
Christians

More quotes by Alan Hirsch

Image
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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
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
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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
Image
The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
Alan Hirsch
Image
There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
Alan Hirsch
Image
It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.
Alan Hirsch
Image
Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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 a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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
There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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 retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
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