You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
“Christianity is concerned with the unfolding of the Kingdom of God in this world, not the longevity of organizations.” — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church. — 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
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
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
“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
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
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all… — 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
“It is one thing to create a countercultural community or a Christian subculture, but it is a much more difficult thing to… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Evangelism cant be our focus! We must not stop sharing the good news, but here’s the deal, here’s the wonderful thing, it… — 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 the church fails to make the shift to apostolic movements again, Christian influence in Western culture will continue to fade, and… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Apostolic ministry is not just about founding new churches and movements; it is as much about the renewal of existing organizations, that… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Strictly speaking one ought to say that the Church is always in a state of crisis and that its greatest shortcoming is… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“All apostolic ministry in some sense involves this return to the founding message as well as purpose. The missional task that follows… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency. — 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
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name. — 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
The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people. — 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
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
