Alan Hirsch Quotes about Jesus

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 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

There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

Alan Hirsch

Jesus, Mean, Doubt

Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.88, Baker Books

In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

Alan Hirsch

Jesus, Community, Movement

Alan Hirsch, Tim Catchim (2012). “The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

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

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

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

Alan Hirsch

Jesus, Names, World

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

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

Alan Hirsch

Jesus, Speech, Action

Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.164, Baker Books

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

Alan Hirsch

Jesus, Games, Roots

Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.80, Baker Books

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.

Alan Hirsch

Jesus, Adventure, Journey

Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.110, Baker Books