Quote

Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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
Narrow
Wide
Grace
Truth

More quotes by Alan Hirsch

Image
Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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
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
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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
Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
Alan Hirsch
Image
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
Image
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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
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
There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
Alan Hirsch
Image
We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
Alan Hirsch
Image
You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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
The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
Alan Hirsch
Image
If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
Alan Hirsch
Image
You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
Alan Hirsch
Image
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
Alan Hirsch