Alan Hirsch Throws Down the 20-Year Challenge

March 10, 2010 in Church Strategy with 2 Comments

This video from Q featuring Alan Hirsch is well worth the 19-minute investment. Here’s a quick synopsis of his talk:

The church as we know it is changing. We live in a post-modern, post-Christian and post-American world, where the church is no longer placed at the center of society. Our influence is waning and our basis for ecclesiology will drive the way we interact in this new reality. It begs the question, what should the church look like and how does the mission of the church adapt within this context? In his book, The Shaping of Things to Come, Alan Hirsch paints a picture of what the new church should look like. Hirsch asserts that “the church can be reborn through incarnational mission, messianic spirituality and apostolic structure.

Rather than be paralyzed by what he’s suggesting (which would be very easy to do), what’s one concrete thing you can change in your church today?

HT: Rhett Smith

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2 Responses to “Alan Hirsch Throws Down the 20-Year Challenge”

  1. jdblundell March 11, 2010 at 9:14 am #

    attractional = extractional
    great stuff!

  2. jdblundell March 11, 2010 at 3:14 pm #

    attractional = extractional
    great stuff!