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

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

— Alan Hirsch

Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.

— Alan Hirsch

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

— Alan Hirsch

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

— Alan Hirsch

The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

— 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

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

— Alan Hirsch

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

— Alan Hirsch

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about…

— Alan Hirsch

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

— 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

Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than…

— Alan Hirsch

“How did we ever get to believe that faithfulness involved simply retaining past forms and thinking? With the Creator God as our…

— 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

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

— Alan Hirsch

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

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

— 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

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

— Alan Hirsch

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

— Alan Hirsch

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

— Alan Hirsch

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

— 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