Untamed Quotes

“if we are going to be genuinely Christlike, we will not be conformists! For one, our Lord can hardly be called a conformist. He disturbed the status quo, railed against injustice and lack of mercy, hung out with highly questionable people, and fomented a revolution that called for the overthrow of religious oppression.”
― Alan Hirsch, Untamed (Shapevine): Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship

“You simply cannot be a disciple without being a missionary—a sent one. For way too long discipleship has been limited to issues relating to our own personal morality and worked out in the context of the four walls of the church with its privatized religion.”
― Alan Hirsch, Untamed (Shapevine): Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship

“If we are not careful, then, the culture rather than God actually gets to define reality.”
― Alan Hirsch, Untamed (Shapevine): Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship

“The gospel cannot be limited to being about my personal healing and wholeness, but rather extends in and through my salvation to the salvation of the world.”
― Alan Hirsch, Untamed (Shapevine): Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship

“To be a truly radical disciple does require a relentless evaluation of life’s priorities and concerns, together with an ongoing, rigorous critique of our culture, to ensure we are not adopting values that subvert the very life and message we are called to live out.”
― Alan Hirsch, Untamed (Shapevine): Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship

“We sincerely believe discipleship has become a frontier issue for the people of God at this time in history. And most commentators would agree that in sincerely seeking to appeal to the prevailing consumerist culture, the Western church has all but lost the art of discipleship.2 This causes, for instance, Southern Baptist prophet Reggie McNeal to conclude that “church culture in North America is a vestige of the original [Christian] movement, an institutional expression of religion that is in part a civil religion and in part a club where religious people can hang out with other people whose politics, worldview, and lifestyle match theirs.”3 If this is indeed the case, we should be clear this is not what the church is called to be, and is, in fact, a failure in discipleship.”
― Alan Hirsch, Untamed (Shapevine): Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship