The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
Alan HirschThe church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
Alan HirschIf we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
Alan HirschIt's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.
Alan Hirsch