Alan Hirsch

Cultivating apostolic imagination and practice in western contexts, Founder of @_mlcollective, @forgeinternational, @5Qcollective, & Future Travelers.

[MICHAEL LEE WOMACK @WomackPoetry26]

The Missional Quest: Becoming a Church of the Long Run by @lanceford & @bradleybrisco

Kindle: $3.99
"Not only are Brad Brisco and Lance Ford great friends, but they are also highly gifted colleagues deeply involved in helping to birth and nurture the missional church in America and beyond. This is a top-class practical resource to help any community live into its own missional future." -
@AlanHirsch, author of The Permanent Revolution

"The Missional Quest is a practical guide for how to get everyone in your church engaged in the mission of Jesus. I dream of a church where 100 percent of the people are sold-out, surrendered and serving Jesus, and Lance Ford and Brad Brisco show us how to make it happen." -
@DaveFerguson, CEO & President of Exponential. Co-Founding Pastor of COMMUNITY, Author of award-winning books including "Hero Maker", "B.L.E.S.S." & upcoming "Multiplier."

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[MICHAEL LEE WOMACK @WomackPoetry26]

The Missional Quest: Becoming a Church of the Long Run by @lanceford & @bradleybrisco

paperback: $9.88
Kindle: $3.99
"The Missional Quest is a practical guide for how to get everyone in your church engaged in the mission of Jesus. I dream of a church where 100 percent of the people are sold-out, surrendered and serving Jesus, and Lance Ford and Brad Brisco show us how to make it happen." -
@DaveFerguson, Co-Founding Pastor of COMMUNITY, Author of award-winning books including "Hero Maker", "B.L.E.S.S." & "Multiplier."

"Not only are Brad Brisco and Lance Ford great friends, they are also highly gifted colleagues deeply involved in helping to birth and nurture the missional church in America and beyond. This is a top-class practical resource to help any community live into its own missional future."
- @AlanHirsch, author of The Permanent Revolution

purchase link: https://t.co/u9cRwEUMoj

@ivpress

[MICHAEL LEE WOMACK @WomackPoetry26]

Disciplism: Reimagining Evangelism Through the Lens of Discipleship by @alanhirsch

Kindle: $0.99

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[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

When someone asks me what got me interested in the topic of #APEST. I shared how I found APEST to be part of the solution for two different issues.

Church Planting.

When we planted a church many years ago, I realized pretty quickly that I did not fit the traditional "pastor" role. I worked hard at trying to be a better shepherd. But despite all my attempts to sharpen those ministry skills, I knew I didn’t live up to the expectations others had of me as their leader. Instead, I knew I was created to start things, to pioneer, to architect, and innovate. As I began to engage APEST, I realized my calling, or vocation, was much more apostolic. For the first time, I understood how my gifting fit into the body of Christ.

Activating all the people of God.

I always struggled with how "non-pastors" fit into the mission and ministry of the church. The only lens I had in my early days of ministry was for "lay-people" to become pastors/teachers (like every other pastor and me) or to volunteer for empty slots in my ministry plan.

APEST helped me see that the five-fold gifts are given by Jesus to the body, not simply leaders. Therefore, APEST provided a biblical framework to activate ALL the people of God for the maturity of the body (help to diminish the clergy-laity divide), but at the same time, it also provided a way to understand how our vocations fit into the marketplace, or broader culture (help to diminish the sacred-secular divide).

Since my introduction to APEST, I would add that there has been a progression in my understanding and convictions. In the beginning, it was helpful to see APEST not as roles or offices in the church, but as individual callings. It was also important to see that these vocations existed not for the benefit of the individual, but for the maturity of the body.

Later, with the help of @alanhirsch’s writings, I came to see that Jesus is the perfect expression of APEST. As Alan shares in the book 5Q, the Ministry of Christ (MOX) is given to the Body of Christ (BOX), which results in the Fullness of Christ (FOX).

Finally, one of the most powerful aspects of APEST is seeing the gifts not merely as personal callings, but as functions of the church. Ask if the church is to be apostolic? Is the church to be prophetic? Is the church to be evangelistic? Is the church to be a shepherding and teaching community? Of course, the answer to each of these questions is a resounding yes! If this is indeed the case, then there are no better "marks" to help define who the church is and what the church does.

If, for some reason, you have reservations about an aspect of APEST, please take the time and do the research. Your church will thank you.

[Alan Hirsch @alanhirsch]

If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus—and go on looking until you're not just a spectator, but you're actually part of the action.
~ N. T. Wright

[Alan Hirsch @alanhirsch]

Oh yeah. This will be good. And exploration into movement spirituality and dynamics with two wonder people, Monica & Jeremy Chambers @100movements
https://t.co/gqDpOL3fQv

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Come and join missiologist Wes Watkins & moi for a strategic discussion on the importance of rediscovering church as movement in our time. https://t.co/zMIbg4iloc

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

If you are interested in Covocational Church Planting, join me for a 50-minute webinar this Thursday (Jan 15th) at 6:00pm Eastern time. You can sign up here: https://t.co/VG8bXbaA0H @sendnetwork #Covo

[Alan Hirsch @alanhirsch]

@TheFigen_ Ai

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The amazing folks at Motus Dei have now released the definitive statement “Reactivating the Church as Movement” in multiple languages. I highly recommend reading this.
https://t.co/K6dXPT9mzc

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To Contemplate Christ https://t.co/60qyFByvLN

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Clues about the Face of God https://t.co/LQDbsmY6Yu

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@NotebookLM NotebookLM is the bomb! So good.

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@SkyeJethani and moi exploring all kinds of things related to church as movement. Come join…
https://t.co/O2t4C94nF6

[Alan Hirsch @alanhirsch]

@dansully @fitchest That’s funny. I should tell you that it’s not fully accurate about me. But that’s AI. And I would put Untamed in over Right Here, Right Now as a discpleship option. Also check out The Faith of Leap (2nd edition). :)

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@vJD4_ @archi_tradition Yes! And Sagrada Familia!

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@archi_tradition Praque Cathedral and Notre Dame.

[Alan Hirsch @alanhirsch]

Judas, Political Ideology, and the Crisis of Contemporary Christianity: A look into ‘the Judas option’ in our day
https://t.co/IVoCdHQQ1P

[Charlie Brill @MrCharlieBrill]

Great questions from my friend, @alanhirsch! 👇🏼

[Alan Hirsch @alanhirsch]

Most complexity is unnecessary, but we manage it instead of removing it because deletion requires courage that addition doesn't.
~ @RoyMoran