Alan Hirsch: Mission

Alan Hirsch is South African missionary. Explore interesting quotes on mission.

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“This is why we are on record claiming that the missional conversation — refactoring mission back into the equation of church — contains the seeds of authenticity and renewal for Christianity in our time and place.”

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 159

“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.”

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 155

“Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.”

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 123

“Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.”

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 178

“In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.”

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 193

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

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 58

“Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.”

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 164

“The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.”

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 160

“In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.”

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 96