Alan Hirsch

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

— Alan Hirsch

“Christianity is concerned with the unfolding of the Kingdom of God in this world, not the longevity of organizations.”

— Alan Hirsch

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

— Alan Hirsch

“I have come to believe that the major threat to the viability of our faith is that of consumerism. This”

— Alan Hirsch

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

— Alan Hirsch

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought…

— Alan Hirsch

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

— Alan Hirsch

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

— Alan Hirsch

“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

Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives,…

— Alan Hirsch

“In essence, the apostle is the one who is most likely to facilitate the emergence of communitas, a particular kind of community…

— Alan Hirsch

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted…

— Alan Hirsch

Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just…

— Alan Hirsch

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

When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we…

— Alan Hirsch

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

“Purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that…

— Alan Hirsch

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

— Alan Hirsch

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

— Alan Hirsch

There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

— Alan Hirsch

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

— Alan Hirsch

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can…

— Alan Hirsch

Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

— Alan Hirsch

There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

— Alan Hirsch

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

— Alan Hirsch

Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

— Alan Hirsch

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

— Alan Hirsch

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

— Alan Hirsch

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

— Alan Hirsch

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

— Alan Hirsch

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

— Alan Hirsch

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

— Alan Hirsch

“Wesleyanism was at its most influential when it was a people movement that was reproducing like mad. It”

— Alan Hirsch

The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

— Alan Hirsch

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

— Alan Hirsch

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

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture,…

— Alan Hirsch

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain…

— Alan Hirsch

Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the…

— Alan Hirsch