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
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
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
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 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
Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure. — 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
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 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… — 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
“I have come to believe that the major threat to the viability of our faith is that of consumerism. This” — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
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 Image
There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
