Alan Hirsch Quotes
Top 43 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alan Hirsch
Alan Hirsch Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Alan Hirsch on Wise Famous Quotes.
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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.