Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship — 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
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“So a working definition of missional church is a community of God's people that defines itself, and organizes its life around, its… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely… — 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
“It was C. S. Lewis who observed that "there exists in every church something that sooner or later works against the very… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“If apostolic refounding is about anything, it is about a return to the sources. Organizational renewal therefore involves the discovery of an… — 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
