Religion Quotes by Alan Hirsch

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

— Alan Hirsch

You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

— Alan Hirsch

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

— Alan Hirsch

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

— Alan Hirsch

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

— 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

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

— Alan Hirsch

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

— Alan Hirsch

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future…

— Alan Hirsch

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

“It is one thing to create a countercultural community or a Christian subculture, but it is a much more difficult thing to…

— Alan Hirsch

When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission…

— Alan Hirsch

In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely…

— Alan Hirsch

“if the church fails to make the shift to apostolic movements again, Christian influence in Western culture will continue to fade, and…

— Alan Hirsch

“It was C. S. Lewis who observed that "there exists in every church something that sooner or later works against the very…

— Alan Hirsch

“Apostolic ministry is not just about founding new churches and movements; it is as much about the renewal of existing organizations, that…

— Alan Hirsch

“Strictly speaking one ought to say that the Church is always in a state of crisis and that its greatest shortcoming is…

— Alan Hirsch

“All apostolic ministry in some sense involves this return to the founding message as well as purpose. The missional task that follows…

— Alan Hirsch

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

— Alan Hirsch

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

— 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

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

— Alan Hirsch

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

— Alan Hirsch

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

— Alan Hirsch

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

— Alan Hirsch

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

— 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

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

— Alan Hirsch