62 Quotes by Alan Hirsch

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

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

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

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.