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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
— Alan Hirsch
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
— Alan Hirsch
The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
— 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
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
— Alan Hirsch
Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
— Alan Hirsch
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
— Alan Hirsch
But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
— 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
You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
— Alan Hirsch
More data is not always the answer.
— Alan Hirsch
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
— Alan Hirsch
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
— Alan Hirsch
You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
— Alan Hirsch
Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
— Alan Hirsch
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
— Alan Hirsch
It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
— Alan Hirsch
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
— Alan Hirsch
Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
— 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
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
— 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
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
— Alan Hirsch
This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
— Alan Hirsch
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
— Alan Hirsch
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
— Alan Hirsch
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
— 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.
— Alan Hirsch