Alan Hirsch Quotes

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

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

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

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

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.

Becoming an adventurous, liminal church means getting over risk aversion. Often the difference between a successful person (or organization) and a failure lies not in having better abilities or ideas, but in having the courage to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

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

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

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

Because of this global uncertainty, the visionary and the adventurous amongst us will get to shape the future of the twenty-first century—the church included.

What we find in our heroes and martyrs is a living witness to the fact that the true life of faith can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if one takes it on bravely and gallantly, as something of a grand adventure in which we set out into an unknown country to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Indeed, we believe that twenty-first century Christians are yearning to see the adventure put back into Christianity, into the relationship with the living God — where it rightly belongs.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.