Alan Hirsch - Risk Quotes

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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

Alan Hirsch

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

Alan Hirsch

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

Alan Hirsch

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

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Becoming an adventurous, liminal church means getting over risk aversion. Often the difference between a successful person (or organization) and a failure lies not in having better abilities or ideas, but in having the courage to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

Alan Hirsch

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

Alan Hirsch