Quotes from Alan Hirsch

If we are not careful, then, the culture rather than God actually gets to define reality.

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

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

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

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

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

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.

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.

When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

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.