Alan Hirsch Quotes, Jesus Quotes, Games Quotes

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Jesus Quotes , Games Quotes

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Cancer Quotes , Support Quotes

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Christian Quotes

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Teaching Quotes , Heart Quotes

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Lying Quotes , Long Quotes

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Loss Quotes , Risk Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Innovation Quotes , Retreat Quotes

In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Jesus Quotes , Community Quotes

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Sunday Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Lying Quotes , Believe Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Jesus Quotes , Speech Quotes

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Church Quotes

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Real Quotes , People Quotes

Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Sports Quotes , Lying Quotes

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Christian Quotes , Adventure Quotes

In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Order Quotes , Innovation Quotes

More data is not always the answer.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Data Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Journey Quotes , Destiny Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Culture Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Way Quotes , Worship Quotes