Alan Hirsch Quotes about Church

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

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

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

Alan Hirsch

Leadership, Christian, Church

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

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

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

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

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

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.