62 Quotes by Alan Hirsch

Transformation happens less by arguing cogently about something new than by generating active new practices that shift the experience of the basis for reality. In other words, the best way of making ideas have impact is to embed them into the very rhythms and habits of the community in the form of common tools and practices.

Evangelism cant be our focus! We must not stop sharing the good news, but here’s the deal, here’s the wonderful thing, it gets done along the way as you do discipleship. Great commission is just about going to disciple the nations and you know what happens... as you disciple them evangelism takes place, because it’s done in the context of discipleship.Here’s the issue: We have to reframe evangelism within the context of discipleship

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

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.

Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

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