5Q Quotes

“In relation to the dynamic interconnected and mutuality of the Body, my colleague Tim Catchim says that in order for the APEST giftings to fulfill their Christ-given purpose, we are not only required to express our own gifting, we are also required to find a way to equip others to do what we have been gifted to do. For example, apostles are to equip the Body to function apostolically; prophets are to equip the Body to function prophetically, and so on down the line. There is therefore a two-dimensional response required here—that God’s people express a calling as well as equip others. Responding to the grace that is given to each one of us in APEST moves us beyond mere self-expression into a dynamic, reciprocal process of training where each one of us becomes both a giver and a receiver, a leader and a follower.11”
― Alan Hirsch, 5Q: Reactivating the Original Intelligence and Capacity of the Body of Christ

“Transformation happens less by arguing cogently about something new than by generating active new practices that shift the experience of the basis for reality. In other words, the best way of making ideas have impact is to embed them into the very rhythms and habits of the community in the form of common tools and practices.”
― Alan Hirsch, 5Q: Reactivating the Original Intelligence and Capacity of the Body of Christ

“The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there. —H. Richard Niebuhr”
― Alan Hirsch, 5Q: Reactivating the Original Intelligence and Capacity of the Body of Christ

“A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension. —Oliver Wendell Holmes”
― Alan Hirsch, 5Q: Reactivating the Original Intelligence and Capacity of the Body of Christ