Alan Hirsch Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• 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.

  Alan Hirsch

  Religious, Jesus, Adventure

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.92, Baker Books

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

  Alan Hirsch

  Church, Missions

• Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

  Alan Hirsch

  Teaching, Heart, Expression

• The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

  Alan Hirsch

  Impact, Safety, Profound

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.58, Baker Books

• When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Block, Mean

  Alan Hirsch (2016). “The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating Apostolic Movements”, p.100, Brazos Press

• 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.

  Alan Hirsch

  Biblical, Greed, Vision

  "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

• Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church—reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Mean, Community

• 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.

  Alan Hirsch

  Lying, Believe, Church

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.155, Baker Books

• You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

  Alan Hirsch

  Leadership, Christian, Church

• 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.

  Alan Hirsch

  Reflection, Irrelevance, Church

  "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

• Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

  Alan Hirsch

  Sunday, Imagination, Church

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.175, Baker Books

• Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

  Alan Hirsch

  Self, People, Perception

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.52, Baker Books

• Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

  Alan Hirsch

  Thinking, Dying, Church

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.178, Baker Books

• In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

  Alan Hirsch

  Baby, Bird, Church

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.193, Baker Books

• Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

  Alan Hirsch

  Christian, Bored, Church

  "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

• The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

  Alan Hirsch

  People, Church, Technique

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.160, Baker Books

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

  Alan Hirsch

  Journey, Church, Missional Church

  Alan Hirsch, Tim Catchim (2012). “The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church”, p.169, John Wiley & Sons

• If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

  Alan Hirsch

  Adventure, Loss, Risk

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.151, Baker Books

• Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.

  Alan Hirsch

  Leadership, Christian, People

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