Alan Hirsch Quotes

Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

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

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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

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

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

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

Let’s stop kidding ourselves — there are too many instances of Christians worshiping sublimely every Sunday, but never making an impact beyond the congregation, never experiencing the powerful beauty of communitas, and never going deeper in discipleship.

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

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

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.

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.