It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

- Alan Hirsch

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

- Alan Hirsch

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

- Alan Hirsch

The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

- Alan Hirsch

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.

- Alan Hirsch

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

- Alan Hirsch

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

- Alan Hirsch

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal se…

- Alan Hirsch

Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in eve…

- Alan Hirsch