“In essence, the apostle is the one who is most likely to facilitate the emergence of communitas, a particular kind of community that is shaped and formed around a challenge or compelling task.” — 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
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
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 Image
“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 Image
