Quotes from Alan

This past summer I read a book The Shaping of Things to Come by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost. Marc Van der Woude just attended a conference where Alan spoke. Here are a few quotes that stuck out and reminded me how good this book is.

• The issue is not whether you believe in Jesus, but whether you follow Him. The lordship of Christ is often proclaimed (orthodoxy), but not often practiced (orthopraxy). Greek thinking is comprehending an idea, while Hebrew thinking is learning by incarnating truth. In other words: you only really know what you apply in real-life.
• Christology shapes missiology shapes ecclesiology. If we start with the church, we start on the wrong side of the spectrum.
• To really change society, we need to tell a different story. Stirring people's imagination is more important than transferring knowledge.

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