On the Verge Quotes

“within decades, Anglo-Saxon Americans will be in the minority in the U.S. — yet our churches don’t seem to be responding to this reality.”
― Alan Hirsch, On the Verge: A Journey Into the Apostolic Future of the Church

“globalization, climate change, technological breakthroughs, international terrorism, geopolitical shifts, economic crises, the digitalization of information, social networks, the rise of bottom-up people-movements, the rise of new religious movements, even the New Atheism, and others. These all conspire together to further accelerate the marginalization of the church as we know it, forcing us to rethink our previously privileged relationship to broader culture around us.”
― Alan Hirsch, On the Verge: A Journey Into the Apostolic Future of the Church

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES”
― Alan Hirsch, On the Verge: A Journey Into the Apostolic Future of the Church

“if the church fails to make the shift to apostolic movements again, Christian influence in Western culture will continue to fade, and church attendance will remain in its current trajectory of decline. All we can say in writing this book is, not on our shift! Not if we can help it.”
― Alan Hirsch, On the Verge: A Journey Into the Apostolic Future of the Church