Alan Hirsch quotes

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk. (Alan Hirsch)
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective. View quote
Alan Hirsch
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time. View quote
Alan Hirsch
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress. View quote
Alan Hirsch
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point. View quote
Alan Hirsch
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves. View quote
Alan Hirsch
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life. View quote
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, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge. View quote
Alan Hirsch
At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. View quote
Alan Hirsch
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves. View quote
Alan Hirsch
Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity. (Alan Hirsch)
Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance. View quote
Alan Hirsch
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries. View quote
Alan Hirsch
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus. View quote
Alan Hirsch
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable. View quote
Alan Hirsch
This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely. View quote
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 of the gospel. View quote
Alan Hirsch
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency. View quote
Alan Hirsch
It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures. View quote
Alan Hirsch
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change. View quote
Alan Hirsch
The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people. (Alan Hirsch)
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change. View quote
Alan Hirsch
Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure. View quote
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 people in every epoch have desired. View quote
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The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now. View quote
Alan Hirsch