The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
Alan HirschThose of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
Alan HirschThink of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
Alan HirschBeing the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in Godโs 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 churchโreconnecting 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