62 Quotes by Alan Hirsch

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.

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.

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

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.

The first apostles of Christ were in the eyes of the world “unlearned and ignorant” men: it was not until the Church had endured a persecution and had grown largely in numbers that Christ called a learned man to be His apostle.31.

Wesleyanism was at its most influential when it was a people movement that was reproducing like mad. It.

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.