Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
Alan HirschThis submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
Alan HirschYou cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
Alan HirschMany 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.
Alan HirschWhen 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