Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share 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… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion,… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“If we're going to impact our world in the name of Jesus, it will be because people like you and me took… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share 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… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share
Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share
“I have come to believe that the major threat to the viability of our faith is that of consumerism. This” — Alan Hirsch Copy Share
The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share
“All apostolic ministry in some sense involves this return to the founding message as well as purpose. The missional task that follows is to… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share
Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share
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… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share
It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share
Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves;… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share
“How did we ever get to believe that faithfulness involved simply retaining past forms and thinking? With the Creator God as our Father, how… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share
